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CHUCKY'S TREE HOUSE !

chucky

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Let me save you all alot of time and exercise RIT liquid dye in dark green at 180 degrees and white vinegar and a squirt of dishwashing detergent didnt do anything to my awning. I followed all the youtube directions i roller brushed it pumped the liquid dye directly on it with a sprayer lt turned green i let it dry got up on top of the box to wash off solar panels and washed every bit of the green rite off like water on a waxed hood sooooooo im going to try the rit synthetic dyemore later this week ! If that doesnt work looks like 383 green will give me some color on it . KNOCK ON WOOD
 

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Let me save you all alot of time and exercise RIT liquid dye in dark green at 180 degrees and white vinegar and a squirt of dishwashing detergent didnt do anything to my awning. I followed all the youtube directions i roller brushed it pumped the liquid dye directly on it with a sprayer lt turned green i let it dry got up on top of the box to wash off solar panels and washed every bit of the green rite off like water on a waxed hood sooooooo im going to try the rit synthetic dyemore later this week ! If that doesnt work looks like 383 green will give me some color on it . KNOCK ON WOOD
Well that is a kick in the .

Sorry to hear all that work was a waste. Good luck on round 2.


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Well that is a kick in the .

Sorry to hear all that work was a waste. Good luck on round 2.


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I told Mullaney when someone tells you to just DYE it thats code for G.F.Y. lmao ! I had a long talk with the awning this morning and I told her by the weekend your going to be green or your going to be in ashes which ever way you want to play it ! So thats my final offer on the matter . And all that aside you gave me an idea to try to dye the engine mound cover i will try a small piece and see if it takes my dye .
 

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UPDATE ON DYE ! Used Rit DYEMORE this time and let it soak in a 200 degree water/dye and the ole girl wasnt having any part of it ! So i mixed up a gun full of 383 green and a ladder and shot the awning in the rolled up position for today gona rain again this afternoon and it look just fine so tomorrow i will try to squirt the rest of it !
 

chucky

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Since COACHGEO had to have camo netting or we would have never herd the end of it ! SO I dug and scrounged and pilferd and found him some camo netting and hung it on my PAINTED 383 GREEN AWNING ! And as far as dye goes in my book if you want to make tiedye t-shirts in the kitchen sink and go follow the GRATEFUL DEAD thats fine but if you want to change colors PAINT IT !!!!
 
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chucky

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And a question for the masses painted on the the green rubber cover the camo netting came in was the word o w w v in military stencil black on the cover any ideas what that stand for?
 

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Since COACHGEO had to have camo netting or we would have never herd the end of it ! SO I dug and scrounged and pilferd and found him some camo netting and hung it on my PAINTED 383 GREEN AWNING ! And as far as dye goes in my book if you want to make tiedye t-shirts in the kitchen sink and go follow the GRATEFUL DEAD thats fine but if you want to change colors PAINT IT !!!!
shweeet...... since your having soooo much fun painting

 

chucky

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shweeet...... since your having soooo much fun painting

So now im supposed to do this to my truck ? You just get all the patterns togeather and come on down and hold them while i squirt the paint ! We can hang some kind of drop cloth over you to cut down on overspray !
 

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So now im supposed to do this to my truck ? You just get all the patterns togeather and come on down and hold them while i squirt the paint ! We can hang some kind of drop cloth over you to cut down on overspray !
lol..... nah.... was just teasing about doing the awning's topside..... guess you could do the roof too?... or whole thing lol......
 

chucky

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lol..... nah.... was just teasing about doing the awning's topside..... guess you could do the roof too?... or whole thing lol......
Atleast i finally turned it green ! I was beginning to wonder if the day would ever come and ive got enough camo to cover the box and awning but it would be a pain to get it up their and it would block my solar panels! oh and any idea what O W W V stenciled on the camo net cover would stand for?
 
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